Time to get away and selah for a few days...
I'm headed out of town for a few days in quest of a much needed, although brief, break. My family and I are headed West and looking forward to it.
So often, we find ourselves in the rat race; (yes, even pastors can get caught up in it) we get drawn in, just like so many others. But, in our case, we think we're serving the Lord, so we think it's OK. OK to be stressed and stretched; OK to be pulled in every direction simultaneously. God has a word for ALL of us regarding the rat race. That word, "Selah", is included numerous times throughout the Psalms as an directive to us to rest; and to meditate or study on what we've just read. We can certainly apply that to our lives as well. We have to stop to study, right? We have to be still to be able to meditate on God's word, amen? You're saying, "so Pastor, what's your point?" That God's word on rest is final. One seventh of our year was meant to be set aside as a day of rest. How many days is that? 52, if I'm not mistaken. I believe that if God saw fit to rest on the 7th day, shouldn't we find ways to do the same? Even those of us called to shepherd His flocks?
As a final note before I hit the road, why does He say, "Be still, and know that I am God"? Once again, God gives us the method to hear Him. How? By being still; closing out the world; the noise; the computer; the cell phone; the television; and finding that only in the midst of the silence, can we clearly hear the still, small voice of the Master.
So often, we find ourselves in the rat race; (yes, even pastors can get caught up in it) we get drawn in, just like so many others. But, in our case, we think we're serving the Lord, so we think it's OK. OK to be stressed and stretched; OK to be pulled in every direction simultaneously. God has a word for ALL of us regarding the rat race. That word, "Selah", is included numerous times throughout the Psalms as an directive to us to rest; and to meditate or study on what we've just read. We can certainly apply that to our lives as well. We have to stop to study, right? We have to be still to be able to meditate on God's word, amen? You're saying, "so Pastor, what's your point?" That God's word on rest is final. One seventh of our year was meant to be set aside as a day of rest. How many days is that? 52, if I'm not mistaken. I believe that if God saw fit to rest on the 7th day, shouldn't we find ways to do the same? Even those of us called to shepherd His flocks?
As a final note before I hit the road, why does He say, "Be still, and know that I am God"? Once again, God gives us the method to hear Him. How? By being still; closing out the world; the noise; the computer; the cell phone; the television; and finding that only in the midst of the silence, can we clearly hear the still, small voice of the Master.
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